Alum Wins National Teaching Award

Elizabeth Mieuli Beans, Ph.D. 2012  is the winner of the prestigious Knowles Science Teaching Foundation's Teaching Fellowship, a major national teaching award.

"Liz Beans has exceptional content knowledge in chemistry...her research work and her PhD in organic chemistry gives her an unusually deep and connected view of the discipline, which is crucial for a teacher."  Beans pursued her interest in science and research ...as a medicinal chemist at a biotechnology company and as a recent graduate from the Chemistry Department at Stanford University.